Merino sheep

Date: [ca 1906-1907]

From: Langton, Bennet Rothes, 1840-1925 :Photographs of Warren sheep run, Canterbury

Reference: PAColl-4450-1

Description: A man and a dog sitting next to a water race with the homestead in the background (the man is probably Frederick Crowe); a man with a four horse plough team; a small flock of merino ewes and lambs with a man and a dog standing near them and a shed in the background; and the same flock brought closer to the pens next to the shed. Photographer unidentified. There are notes appended to the album that is also part of this collection: "Langton owned Warren sheep run, near Oxford, Canterbury...the loose prints of sheep dated from 1906-1907 - stud ewes and merino lambs. View taken just behind the wool shed - Warren property extends to the line of fir trees in background...Man possibly Mr Frederick Crowe, Langton's farm manager." Quantity: 4 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Photographic prints

Date: 1865

From: Illustrated London News :[Scrapbook of clippings relating to New Zealand 1860s]

By: Illustrated London news (Newspaper); Pearson, Mr, active 1860s

Reference: E-372-f-039-1

Description: A side view of a merino, bred in Germany Extended Title - From: Illustrated London news, Volume 47, July 1865, p. 80 Quantity: 1 b&w art print(s). Physical Description: Wood engraving, 100 x 160 mm

Date: 2004 - 2005

From: [New Zealand calendars of quarto size]

By: Tarras School; Chisholm, Jenny, active 2004

Reference: Eph-B-CALENDAR-2005-02

Description: Calendar with 12 openings, showing photographs of a merino sheep called Shrek, posed with various personalities of the Tarras area. Shrek had avoided being shorn by hiding in a cave in the hills. The photographs have been supplied by the Otago Daily Times (photographed by Stephen Jacquiery, Steve Hepburn), New Zealand Herald, Carmen Hancock, Neville Chisholm, Taieri Print Ltd. There are photographs of the following children with their comments about Shrek: Meg Topping, Andrew Morrison, Arthur Chapman-Cohen, Rupert Power, Francesca Hayman, Blake Wyber, Jaimie Vial, Lucy Crabbe, Bridget Crabbe, Sarah Crabbe, Daniel Morrison, Matthew Ruitenberg, William Snow. Other Titles - Jenny Chisholm Quantity: 1 calendar. Physical Description: Photolithographs on calendar, 210 x 295 mm. Provenance: Acquired under legal deposit in 2005.

Date: [1930s-1940s]

From: New Zealand Free Lance : Photographic prints and negatives

By: Green & Hahn (Firm); Inkster, Lawrence Andrew, 1897-1955; Kent, Thelma Rene, 1899-1946; Nash, Percival Frederick, -1952; Raine, William Hall, 1892-1955; Roberts, Jack Debnam Stewart, 1891-1980; Weigel, William George, 1890-1980

Reference: PAColl-0785-1-190

Description: Photographs taken for publication in New Free Lance, ca 1930s-1940s (many undated). Names of identified photographers and places added to Name and Place fields; also one undated photograph by H Neville Ross, Masterton. Includes scenes on sheep stations throughout New Zealand showing mustering, shearing, stock yards, musterers, Merino rams, etc. Photographs of H M Campbell's station, Te Aute, Hawke's Bay; sheep on reclaimed land Ahuriri Lagoon, Hawke's Bay; sheep mustered on land beside the Wellington motorway, ca 1940s; Hautu detention farm, Tokaanu; girl with her pet lamb, Makarora, Lake Wanaka (photographer Thelma Kent). Quantity: 39 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Silver gelatin prints

Date: 1865

From: Illustrated London News :[Scrapbook of clippings relating to New Zealand 1860s]

By: Pearson, Mr, active 1860s

Reference: E-372-f-041-3

Description: A side view of a merino, bred in Germany The accompanying article on the following page of the Illustrated London news explains that the merinos were bred and improved in Saxony from sheep imported from Spain and particularly superior for the quality of their wool Extended Title - From: Illustrated London news, Volume 47, July 1865, p. 80 Quantity: 1 b&w art print(s). Physical Description: Wood engraving, 99 x 157 mm

Date: 4 Jun 2003 - 04 Jun 2003

From: Shear History Trust life in the sheds oral history project

By: Paterson, Bruce John, 1926-; Cundy, Judy, active 2000

Reference: OHInt-0943-21

Description: Interview with Bruce Patterson, born in 1926 at Armidale homestead in Central Otago. Refers to his family background, growing up on a farm where merinos were run, and the hard years and bleak winters during World War II. Mentions being on a train that crashed at Hyde in 1943. Refers to taking over the family farm in 1952, always having more than one breed of sheep, and buying high country land for his children to farm. Comments on mustering on horseback and on foot in steep terrain. Discusses the year's programme on high country stations, rabbit control, and the characteristics of merinos. Talks about beginning shearing with blade shears and machines at age 17 and the equipment used. Comments on shearing full time for seven years, and reflects on changes in shearing over the years. Mentions Godfrey Bowen beginning the first shearing school in 1960, and organising shearing schools in Central Otago. Refers to beginning judging in competitions in 1962, and judging around the South Island, at the Golden Shears and in South Africa. Interviewer(s) - Judy Cundy Arrangement: Tape numbers - OHC-012565 Quantity: 1 C60 cassette(s). 1 printed abstract(s). 1 Electronic document(s) - abstract. 1 interview(s). 1 Hours Duration. Physical Description: Textual file - Microsoft word Finding Aids: Abstract Available - abstracting complete OHA-4334, OHDL-000728. Search dates: 1926 - 2003

Date: 2005

From: New Zealand Century Farm and Station Program :New Zealand Century Farm and Station Award applications

Reference: MS-Papers-8640-53

Description: The papers consist of: Application form submitted by Tony Jopp; `In the shadow of the rock: The story of Moutere and its merinos' by Tony Jopp, 2004; brochure re Moutere Merinos (1904-2004); pages from a register of runs (colour laser copies). The first member of the family to acquire land at Moutere was Andrew Jopp who purchased 47,807 acres from A D Lubecki in 1891. The property was carrying about 18,000 sheep at the time. In 2005 the station was owned by his great-grandson Tony Jopp (trading under the name Moutere Station Ltd) and was awarded the NZ Century Farm & Station award to mark 100 years of continuous ownership by one family. Quantity: 1 folder(s). Physical Description: Mss, typescript, printed matter

Date: 2005

From: New Zealand Century Farm and Station Program :New Zealand Century Farm and Station Award applications

Reference: MS-Papers-8640-04

Description: Papers relating to Hawkesbury and the Goulter family include: Descendants of William Goulter (d 1753) and his wife Mary Fido. An 8 generation chart with notes, compiled in 2004. Extracts from `Keeper of the sheep' by Mary C Goulter, 1955. Includes Appendices I to III (p 192-198) Copies of land deeds, and list of owners of the Hawkesbury property. Papers relating to the Hawkesbury merino stud owned by Miss M E Goulter. Review of `Marlborough merinos - today & yesterday', undated. Photograph of Charles & Catherine Goulter and family taken ca 1915; photos of Hawkesbury taken at various times between 1906 and 1915; other photos of Charles and Catherine Goulter. Map of rural sections on the Wairau Plain 1848, copied from A D McIntosh (1940), showing Cyrus Goulter's NZ Company Omaka sections The original owner of the property was Cyrus Goulter who arrived in Nelson on the `Fifeshire' in Feb 1842. He married Anne Redwood who arrived on the `George Fyfe' in Dec 1842. He was prominent in early government surveying and farming in Marlborough, Blenheim and Renwick. His surveying partner was Joseph ward. He took up land in the Omaka Valley in 1846 and named his property Hawkesbury. In 2005 the property was owned by his great great grandson Robert Home (Hume) Goulter. Quantity: 1 folder(s). Physical Description: Mss, typescript, printed matter, maps, photographs (copies) Copies of family photographs

Date: 30 May 1971

From: Open Country Sound Recordings

Reference: OHInt-0002/356

Description: Story of a pioneer who came from the borders of Cumberland in England and landed in Bluff in 1862, where he bought a horse and rode over a hundred miles through swamps and Tussock country to find the virgin land he had bought in England. On discovering where the land was, he took a ship to Australia and returned with some hundreds of Merino sheep. To help look after the stock, he brought with him an aborigine. He made another trip to Australia and brought back thousands of small jarrah shingles for the roof of his homestead. The author has had access to letters and journals for the material for this, in `Tale of an Early Southland Settler'. Access Contact - see oral history librarian Venue - Wellington Interviewer(s) - Jim Henderson, presenter Venue - NZBC Studios, Wellington. Accompanying material - Papers at MS-Papers-1239, folder 102 Arrangement: Tape numbers - OHT5-0365 Quantity: 1 5" reel(s). 1 event(s). 12 Minutes Duration.

Date: 7 Mar 1965

From: Open Country Sound Recordings

Reference: OHInt-0002/085

Description: Gerald Goulter of Tophouse Way, who has been sheep farming all his life gives a very interesting story on mustering Marlborough's merinos. Access Contact - see oral history librarian Venue - Wellington Interviewer(s) - Jim Henderson, presenter Venue - NZBC Studios, Wellington Accompanying material - Script at MS-Papers-1239, folder 25 Arrangement: Tape numbers - OHT5-0090 Quantity: 1 5" reel(s). 1 event(s). 12 Minutes Duration.

Date: 1849, 1880-1892

From: Tinline, John, 1821-1907 : Papers

Reference: MS-Papers-0026-4

Description: Includes a sample of merino wool enclosed with a letter to Tinline from Monro dated 1885 Quantity: 1 folder(s). Finding Aids: See inventory for a fuller description of the contents of this folder. Includes photographs of John Tinline, George Tinline, and Mr & Mrs John Anderson

Date: 22, 23 February 1999 - 22 Feb 1999 - 23 Feb 1999

From: Trade union oral history project

By: Wearne, Trevor, 1927-2013

Reference: OHInt-0478/33

Description: Trevor Wearne born Morrinsville. Recalls working on father's farm in Hamilton and Wanganui and early memories of the Shearers' Union, with reference to Tommy Gill (organiser). Discusses early shearing equipment. Recounts progression through the Shearers Union and shift to South Island as National Secretary. Mentions work for New Zealand Workers Union (NZWU). Gives views on compulsory unionism. Other topics discussed include: health and safety; working conditions on farms; education programmes for members; Federated Farmers; work conditions for shearers with reference to Committee of Inquiry on Shed Conditions; union involvement in redundancy and the winding down of projects; share milking industry; relationship with Australian Workers Union; NZWU stance on international events, with reference to the Vietnam War, nuclear testing and Springbok rugby tours; Muldoon's Industrial Relations Policy; NZWU policy on Equal Pay; relationship with Farm Workers Association; hydro workers, with reference to Determination 451; strikes and disputes, with reference to shearing disputes over Merino sheep. Outlines memories of Jim Knox and considers `Muldoon [Sir Robert] was one of nature's gentlemen compared to what we have got today'. Other people mentioned include: Bert Allen, Carl Hare, Bill Dempster, Jimmy Hill, Ian Campbell, John McKenzie, Martin Drake, Tom Skinner, Pincher Martin, Ivan Reddish, John Cramer (NZWU organiser), Ross Jamieson, Eddie Dickson and Len Hadley. Access Contact - see oral history librarian Interviewer(s) - Shaun Ryan Arrangement: Tape numbers - OHC-007560-007563 Quantity: 4 C60 cassette(s). 1 printed abstract(s). 3.05 Hours and minutes Duration. Finding Aids: Abstract Available - abstracting complete OHA-1910.

Date: 1930-1930

From: Evening post (Newspaper. 1865-2002) :Photographic negatives and prints of the Evening Post newspaper

Reference: EP-8241-1/4-G

Description: Photograph taken during 1930 by an Evening Post photographer Source of descriptive information - Notes in negative register. Image not seen by cataloguer. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Dry plate glass negative

Date: 2005

From: [Ephemera of octavo size relating to sheep breeds, sheep farming, and sheep health and diseases]

By: Sakaria, Samuel, active 1990-2000s

Reference: Eph-A-SHEEP-2005-01

Description: Sheet incorporates one stamp designed by Samuel Sakaria showing an adult merino sheep with two lambs. The stamp shows a silver fern logo at top left. Also on the sheet, to the right of the vertical perforation, is an illustration of a rooster, since the stamp was issued in 2005, the year of the rooster in the Chinese calendar. The adult sheep shown has a large set of horns indicating that it is a ram and not a ewe. However it has no other characteristics of a male sheep. The artist admitted to artistic licence for a more dynamic design. Farmers objected to the anatomical inaccuracy of the design which was supposed to show a ewe. The issue received media attention, for example, in the Christchurch "Press", 18 January 2005. See also http://www.nzherald.co.nz/postal-services/news/article.cfm?c_id=73&objectid=100 06952, for the article in the "New Zealand herald". Quantity: 1 colour photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Photolithograph, stamp image 41 x 32 mm, on sheet with perforations, 53 x 46 mm. Provenance: Donated by Christine Petrie, Wellington, in 2011.

Date: 5 Jun 1860

Reference: MS-Papers-10922

Description: Certificate of pedigree for sixteen merino rams sold to A Scott on 5 June 1860 by Thomas Sturgrow, The Elms, Gray, Essex. Certificate bears his coat of arms. The surname can not be deciphered. Note on verso in Sturgrow's hand? re exhibiting at Paris Agricultural Exhibition in 1856 Quantity: 1 folder(s) (1 piece). 0.01 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Printed form completed in ms

Date: 2005 - 2007

By: Icebreaker Clothing (Firm)

Reference: Eph-G-COSTUME-Icebreaker

Description: Includes large catalogue photographs of posed models in outdoor settings, wearing merino wool clothing. Also includes some of the series of couples naked or in sheep's wool posed with merino sheep; one shows the models eating kiwifruit, in what appears to be a Garden of Eden scene. Quantity: 15 colour photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Photolithographs, sizes ranging up to 1200 x 845 mm. Provenance: Donated by Bivouac Outdoor, Wellington, in 2007. Transfers: Other smaller posters from the same provenance housed at Eph-D-COSTUME-Icebreaker.

Date: 2006 - 2007

By: Icebreaker Clothing (Firm)

Reference: Eph-D-COSTUME-Icebreaker-2007

Description: Includes large catalogue photographs of posed models in outdoor settings, wearing merino wool clothing. Quantity: 10 colour photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Photolithographs, 503 x 690 mm. Provenance: Donated by Bivouac Outdoor, Wellington, in 2007. Transfers: Other larger posters from the same provenance housed at Eph-G-COSTUME-Icebreaker.

Date: 1993 - 1997

By: Cochrane, Steve, active 1997

Reference: Eph-E-COSTUME-1995-01

Description: Shows half-length portrait of a young man and woman beside rocks beneath a waterfall. The woman is undressed, while the man is removing his shirt. Shows 100% merino wool symbol beneath the main image. Dated by date of accession. Quantity: 1 colour photo-mechanical print(s) on poster.. Physical Description: Photolithograph, 697 x 1000 mm.

Date: [194-]

Reference: MS-Papers-3608

Description: Notes on Marlborough Merino studs, strains derived principally from Murray Stud rams and ewes of South Australia Accompanying material - accompanied by a letter from F N Richmond to Jim Henderson containing a photograph of a typical merino sire Quantity: 1 folder(s) (4 leaves). 0.01 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Typescript (carbon copy)

Date: 25 May 1927

From: Wilson, James Glenny (Sir) 1848-1929 : Leonard J Wild collection of Sir James Wilson papers

Reference: MS-Papers-0137-50A

Description: Includes report to Royal Agriculture Society re deterioration of New Zealand wool. Mentions dwindling of Merinos and replacement by Romneys. Quantity: 1 folder(s). Finding Aids: Detailed inventory summarising contents of letters available.